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PeterStueryesterday at 6:38 PM3 repliesview on HN

Twitch has been speedrunning their own demise. Maybe the people on charge have personally invested heavily in Kick?


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jeffwaskyesterday at 6:53 PM

When it stopped being about people playing games and became discount reality TV, it's death nell was rung.

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dogleashyesterday at 6:59 PM

> Maybe the people on charge have personally invested heavily in Kick?

Twitch is owned by Amazon. AWS sells the streaming tech Twitch uses to Kick.

Amazon would probably rather sell IVS to Kick than try and figure out how to make Twitch profitable. Or the just don't care enough to notice the people at Twitch are just LARPing at business.

quickthrowmanyesterday at 10:38 PM

It’s owned by Amazon, a publicly traded company. They squeeze as hard as they can, and then some to hit those quarterly numbers.